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Loan officers are seeing an uptick in FHA, VA demand

Housing Wire

The move in government refinances was driven by a 75% increase in VA loans, which have been prone to large changes in recent months. On-the-ground observations Loan officers say they’re seeing an increase in government loan demand. Certain geographic areas have higher shares of government loans.

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HighTechLending to rebrand wholesale channel as American Senior Lending

Housing Wire

HighTechLending , a California -based top-10 reverse mortgage lender, announced on Friday that it is rebranding its wholesale lending division to American Senior Lending Wholesale Division in an effort to better align its identity with key business lines designed to serve older borrowers.

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Anxiety grips LOs as layoffs sweep the industry

Housing Wire

If you take the temperature of how loan officers are feeling ahead of the holiday season, the scale would likely read “uneasy.” According to Fahad Janvekar, a loan officer at Fairway Independent Mortgage , “there is definitely some concern” about layoffs in the industry. Presented by: Black Knight.

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How LOs are dealing with an explosion of activity in NYC’s suburbs

Housing Wire

Across its mortgage footprint, “ Citizens Bank has hired close to 100 underwriters, processors and loan officers this year to keep up with the demand and further their commitment in the mortgage retail space,” said Ace Watanasuparp, who heads residential lending for Citizens in New York City. Citizens is not alone.

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Are reverse mortgages for purchase a ‘sleeping giant?’ Pros are split

Housing Wire

It represented a modest recovery for a highly underutilized option within a wider and similarly underutilized lending program sponsored by the federal government. Education and new business RMD spoke with three national managers at different lending companies who deal in the reverse mortgage product.

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DataDigest: Nearly 100,000 LOs have washed out

Housing Wire

“There’s definitely a shift and while we know there is a lot of movement going on with people losing jobs because of mergers or closures, a certain percentage are moving to brokerage instead of another retail company.” ” It doesn’t surprise me that wholesale has gained market share as refi activity has slowed.

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eXp and Kind plan mortgage JV by October

Housing Wire

Glenn Sanford’s eXp World Holdings announced Thursday a mortgage joint venture with Glenn Stearns’s Kind Lending , called Success Lending. The declaration comes 48 hours after Compass and Guaranteed Rate told of a definitive agreement to begin their own mortgage joint venture, OriginPoint. Presented by: SimpleNexus.

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